On Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted mostly along party lines to reject election protests from Republican Jefferson Griffin and three legislative candidates.
With all 100 counties completing their canvasses, the NCSBE confirmed that 5.7 million ballots were cast, a 73% turnout and the most ballots ever cast in a North Carolina election. Of those, nearly 300,000 were absentee by mail, while over 4 million votes came from early voting, reflecting the state's high voter engagement.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s digital identification cannot be used as voter ID in North Carolina’s election this fall. A unanimous three-judge appellate panel issued on Friday afternoon a temporary injunction and an order called a writ of supersedeas. The writ blocks a lower court order that would have allowed state election officials to count the digital UNC ID as a valid voter ID.
State and national Republican groups are turning to the North Carolina Court of Appeals to block the use of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's digital identification as voter ID in this fall’s election. The Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party filed a petition seeking a temporary stay and temporary injunction.
A Wake County Superior Court judge has rejected Republican groups’ request for a temporary restraining order against North Carolina’s state elections board. GOP critics wanted to block election officials from counting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's digital identification as a valid voter ID for the fall election.
The Democratic National Committee and a group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm both hope to intervene in Republicans’ challenge of newly approved voter identification for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. State elections officials have approved UNC digital IDs to serve as voter IDs for the upcoming election.
A hearing is scheduled Thursday morning in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to force state elections officials to remove his name from North Carolina’s ballot. Superior Court Judge Becky Holt will hold the hearing in Wake County Superior Court.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed suit Friday to have his name removed from North Carolina’s election ballot. Kennedy went to court a day after the State Board of Elections voted 3-2 to reject his request to drop his name from the list of presidential candidates.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted 3-2 against a motion to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name from the ballot for the upcoming Nov. 5 election at an emergency meeting Thursday.
A Wake County judge has issued an order formalizing his decision to keep the We the People Party on North Carolina’s election ballot. The North Carolina Democratic Party had filed suit trying to block the new party tied to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A Wake County Superior Court judge has denied the North Carolina Democratic Party’s request for an emergency injunction to keep the We the People Party off North Carolina’s ballot. Judge Keith Gregory, a Democrat, announced the decision Monday after listening to nearly 90 minutes of arguments.
